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Overview:
Conventional IT architecture assumes a one-to-one mapping between a server and an application: "This is our database server. Over there is our data warehouse, and that one is our CRM server." Each environment is sized for a peak load that may be a single end-of-month run. Not surprisingly, IT studies have shown that the average server utilization rate is an incredibly low 20-35%.

Virtualization is the creation of a pool of physical resources (servers, storage, and network) such that the physical infrastructure is transparent to the end user and the boundaries are flexible enough to shift automatically to meet the end user's changing demands.

Virtualization provides better synchronization between IT and the business. It provides a means of accessing resources dynamically, much like the way we access electricity or other utilities today: When you want more, you turn it on; when you want less, you turn it off.

Building upon a solid foundation of mature, industryleading resource management tools in HP-UX 11i, including the industry's first automated workload management tool for UNIX, HP has made significant investment in extending the vision of a virtualized environment with the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE).

HP VSE provides intelligent control of your virtualized multi-operating-system environment through integrated planning, management, and automation. Continually assessing the status of service-level objectives (SLOs), it can automatically make adjustments, allocating capacity according to business priorities. Integrating intelligent control with partitioning technologies, high-availability solutions, and utility pricing, this solution helps maintain service levels and increase business agility.

In the enterprise space, HP Integrity servers are designed to meet your mission-critical and high-performance requirements. Integrity servers are designed by HP and built on the 64-bit Intel Itanium processor technology, providing best-in-class reliability, availability, and
scalability (RAS) features combined with a choice of operating systems: Windows, Linux, OpenVMS, and-naturally-HP-UX. This multi-operating-system capability, combined with HP VSE, provides the option to choose the operating system that best suits a particular application at any given time.

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